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United kingdom, though its banking group has slashed 22,000 jobs since it was created by the takeover during the height of the financial crisis. lloyds is 21% owned by the government. the latest round of cuts has been described as staggering. the u.s. markets look set for a lower open. this is how the premarket futures stands. it's a mixed picture. the nasdaq showing gains at the moment in terms of the futures markets. on friday, investors will be turning their attention to bank of america first quarter results. keep an eye out for that in our second edition of "world business today" later o...

Close out a second straight week of gains. at the new york stock exchange, the open bell is just about to ring. or did it just ring? they're clapping. that means, already rang? >> a few seconds away, fred. good news on the weekly gain you were talking about, but we are looking at a lower open. ah, there goes the bell. a lot of companies in the headlines lately are making really big moves on the street today. case in point, shares of goldman sachs, agreed to pay a record settlement to the sec. you're wondering, why is the stock jumping after it has to pay this record fine? investors thought the...

Bp will get the rights to explore off the brazilian coast and off the gulf of mexico. and then shell, the company is joining a list of oil giants that stopped selling to iran. that would allow president obama to expand sanctions to iran, and all due to increasing concerns about iran's nuclear ambitions. and that is off, the dow is off. we are off to a lower open. although it's small at this point. and then you can expect calorie information to pop up over the next two weeks, and some states are mandating calorie

I don't know. is that a first? >> not a first. i will tell you about sadie in a bit. first let's talk about the numbers. we are looking at a lower open, kyra, coming off the two days of strong gains. the dow has risen more than 2% in that time, and it's up more than 4% since monday. there is a bigger than expected increase in weekly jobless claim. it's yet another reminder that the pace of the recovery in the jobs market is lagging behind the rest of the economy. walmart says profit rose more than 20% from a year ago, but investors are likely to focus on a key measure of its sales that fell. a...

Side of the atlantic though they did manage to bounce back a little bit from the session's lows. at the close, the major indices were all off by more than 1%. here's a look at where the u.s. market stands. the futures action is showing us we could see a lower open. some of the futures markets down to the tune of about 0.08% as you can see there. while s&p downgraded its outlook on u.s. debt, we should stress it hasn't downgraded its credit rating yet. the ratings agency is warning that that's not completely out of the question if democrats and republicans can't agree to a plan to tackle the pr...